Saw this earlier, a bootsplash using video on the framebuffer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSyejmdZEh8
I tried something similar just now using mplayer, which i recorded and put to youtube, but it has a few issues as i only spent half hour or so fiddling with this. In the video i recorded below, you can see that mplayer is fighting with the boot messages -- how could i stop this happening?
Here's the video of my attempt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tdn77cy92g
And also, is it possible ot get this to start earlier in the boot process? But i would imagine it would involve putting mplayer (and libs), along with the scripts and the video file within the initrd image? That might not be possible...
Basically, i cobbled this together on slackware:
start.sh - Run this from beginning of /etc/rc.d/rc.S
Code:
#!/bin/sh
# path to any video file here
SPLASH=/root/videosplash/splash.mp4
mkfifo /root/videosplash/fifopipe
# supress mplayer output, use the framebuffer video output and loop video infinitely
/usr/bin/mplayer \
-slave \
-really-quiet \
-vo fbdev \
-loop 0 \
-input file=/root/videosplash/fifopipe ${SPLASH} < /dev/null > /dev/null &
stop.sh - Run this from the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local
Code:
#!/bin/sh
# this quits mplayer using a pipe command
# if placed at the end of rc.local, the video will quit at the end of the booting process
if [ ! -z $(pidof mplayer) ]; then
echo -e "q\n" > /root/videosplash/fifopipe
sleep 1
fi
